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astro-ph.SR2018★ 94 cited

A homogeneous analysis of globular clusters from the APOGEE survey with the BACCHUS code. I. The Northern clusters

T. Masseron, D. A. García-Hernández, Sz. Mészáros +12

We analyze a large sample of 885 GCs giants from the APOGEE survey. We used the Cannon results to separate the red giant branch and the asymptotic giant branch stars, not only allo…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 34 cited

APOGEE [C/N] Abundances Across the Galaxy: Migration and Infall from Red Giant Ages

Sten Hasselquist, Jon A. Holtzman, Matthew Shetrone +14

We present [C/N]-[Fe/H] abundance trends from the SDSS-IV Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) survey, Data Release 14 (DR14), for red giant branch stars…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 356 cited

The Fifteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release of MaNGA Derived Quantities, Data Visualization Tools and Stellar Library

D. S. Aguado, Romina Ahumada, Andres Almeida +230

Twenty years have passed since first light for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Here, we release data taken by the fourth phase of SDSS (SDSS-IV) across its first three years o…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 143 cited

Chemical Cartography with APOGEE: Multi-element abundance ratios

David H. Weinberg, Jon A. Holtzman, Sten Hasselquist +25

We map the trends of elemental abundance ratios across the Galactic disk, spanning R = 3-15 kpc and midplane distance |Z|= 0-2 kpc, for 15 elements in a sample of 20,485 stars meas…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 65 cited

The Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping Survey: II. Precision Cluster Abundances for APOGEE using SDSS DR14

John Donor, Peter M. Frinchaboy, Katia Cunha +12

The Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping (OCCAM) survey aims to produce a comprehensive, uniform, infrared-based spectroscopic dataset for hundreds of open clusters, and to…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 281 cited

APOGEE Data Releases 13 and 14: Data and Analysis

Jon A. Holtzman, Sten Hasselquist, Matthew Shetrone +23

Data and analysis methodology used for the SDSS/APOGEE Data Releases 13 and 14 are described, highlighting differences from the DR12 analysis presented in Holtzman (2015). Some imp…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 20 cited

The metal-rich halo component extended in z: a characterization with Gaia DR2 and APOGEE

Emma Fernández-Alvar, J. G. Fernández-Trincado, Edmundo Moreno +12

We report an analysis of the metal-rich tail ([Fe/H] ) of halo stars located at distances from the Galactic plane up to kpc, observed by the Apache Point…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 11 cited

44 New & Known M Dwarf Multiples In The SDSS-III/APOGEE M Dwarf Ancillary Science Sample

Jacob Skinner, Kevin R. Covey, Chad F. Bender +28

Binary stars make up a significant portion of all stellar systems. Consequently, an understanding of the bulk properties of binary stars is necessary for a full picture of star for…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 9 cited

A chemical and kinematical analysis of the intermediate-age open cluster IC 166 from APOGEE and Gaia DR2

J. Schiappacasse-Ulloa, B. Tang, J. G. Fernández-Trincado +26

IC 166 is an intermediate-age open cluster ( Gyr) which lies in the transition zone of the metallicity gradient in the outer disc. Its location, combined with our very limi…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 324 cited

The APOGEE-2 Survey of the Orion Star Forming Complex II: Six-dimensional structure

Marina Kounkel, Kevin Covey, Genaro Suárez +17

We present an analysis of spectrosopic and astrometric data from APOGEE-2 and Gaia DR2 to identify structures towards the Orion Complex. By applying a hierarchical clustering algor…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 36 cited

Stellar and Planetary Characterization of the Ross 128 Exoplanetary System from APOGEE Spectra

Diogo Souto, Cayman T. Unterborn, Verne V. Smith +14

The first detailed chemical abundance analysis of the M dwarf (M4.0) exoplanet-hosting star Ross 128 is presented here, based upon near-infrared (1.5--1.7 \micron) high-resolution…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 10 cited

Signatures of the Galactic bar on stellar kinematics unveiled by APOGEE

Pedro Alonso Palicio, Inma Martinez-Valpuesta, Carlos Allende Prieto +7

Bars are common galactic structures in the local universe that play an important role in the secular evolution of galaxies, including the Milky Way. In particular, the velocity dis…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 26 cited

Disk-Like Chemistry of the Triangulum-Andromeda Overdensity as Seen by APOGEE

Christian R. Hayes, Steven R. Majewski, Sten Hasselquist +15

The nature of the Triangulum-Andromeda (TriAnd) system has been debated since the discovery of this distant, low-latitude Milky Way (MW) overdensity more than a decade ago. Explana…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 305 cited

The Second APOKASC Catalog: The Empirical Approach

Marc H. Pinsonneault, Yvonne P. Elsworth, Jamie Tayar +33

We present a catalog of stellar properties for a large sample of 6676 evolved stars with APOGEE spectroscopic parameters and \textit{Kepler} asteroseismic data analyzed using five…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 3.7k cited

Binary companions of evolved stars in APOGEE DR14: Search method and catalog of ~5,000 companions

Adrian M. Price-Whelan, David W. Hogg, Hans-Walter Rix +10

Multi-epoch radial velocity measurements of stars can be used to identify stellar, sub-stellar, and planetary-mass companions. Even a small number of observation epochs can be info…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 12 cited

The Origin of the 300 km s Stream Near Segue 1

Sal Wanying Fu, Joshua D. Simon, Matthew Shetrone +12

We present a search for new members of the 300 km s stream (300S) near the dwarf galaxy Segue 1 using wide-field survey data. We identify 11 previously unknown bright stream…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 86 cited

Age-resolved chemistry of red giants in the solar neighbourhood

Diane K. Feuillet, Jo Bovy, Jon Holtzman +7

In the age of high-resolution spectroscopic stellar surveys of the Milky Way, the number of stars with detailed abundances of multiple elements is rapidly increasing. These element…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 74 cited

Chemical Abundances of Main-Sequence, Turn-off, Subgiant and red giant Stars from APOGEE spectra I: Signatures of Diffusion in the Open Cluster M67

Diogo Souto, Katia Cunha, Verne V. Smith +21

Detailed chemical abundance distributions for fourteen elements are derived for eight high-probability stellar members of the solar metallicity old open cluster M67 with an age of…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 17 cited

Massive stars in the SDSS-IV/APOGEE SURVEY. I- OB stars

A. Roman-Lopes, C. RomÁn-ZÚÑiga, Mauricio Tapia +10

In this work we make use of DR14 APOGEE spectroscopic data to study a sample of 92 known OB stars. We developed a near-infrared semi-empirical spectral classification method that w…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 34 cited

The Metal-poor non-Sagittarius (?) Globular Cluster NGC 5053: Orbit and Mg, Al and Si Abundances

Baitian Tang, J. G. Fernandez-Trincado, Doug Geisler +20

Metal-poor globular clusters (GCs) exhibit intriguing Al-Mg anti-correlations and possible Si-Al correlations, which are important clues to decipher the multiple-population phenome…